B & B

From: Judaism | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: Wolf, Arnold Jacob | Copyright information

I am not the first to link the appearance of remarkable volumes of American Jewish thought and to review them together. Peter Ochs, a trustworthy interpreter of this literature, evaluates Eugene Borowitz's anthology Studies in the Meaning of judaism and Eliezer Berkovits's Essential Essays on Judaism in tandem.1 Ochs calls these collections a superb "framework for American Jewish dialogue."2

Ochs is right to consider Berkovitz the most useiul interpreter of modern Orthodoxy (since "the...

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